Delegates to Congress . Letters of delegates to Congress, 1774-1789, Volume 4, May 16 1776-August 15 1776
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Secret Committee to To: George Washington


Sir
Philada. May 16th. 1776

   The enclosed letters will discover to your Excellency that the Congress have ordered Two hundred & Forty four Muskets to be forwarded from Rhode Island to New York for the Continental Service and as it is probable you may think proper to give some directions about the mode of getting them safe down we trouble you with these open letters that you may have an opportunity of forwarding them & of adding thereto what you may think Necessary.(1)

   We have the honor to be, Your Excellencys Obedt hble servts.

   By order of the Secret Committee,

   Robt Morris, ChairMan


Note:

   RC (DLC). Written and signed by Morris.



1 See JCC, 4:357. For Washington's May 20 response, see Washington, Writings (Fitzpatrick), 5:63 64. One of the enclosed letters, written by Morris on the 16th on behalf of the committee to Nicholas Brown and John Brown, directed "fourteen Muskets in your hands belonging to the Continent to be forwarded immediately to his Excellency Genl. Washington at New York." Brown Papers, RPJCB. Nicholas Brown s May 27 letter to Washington, explaining why only four muskets were sent, is in am. Archives, 4th ser. 6:768.